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Submitted by M Block
File Sea Monkeys under “Pets for Kids Who Weren’t Allowed to Have Real Pets,” joining the ranks of the Pet Rock, Chia Pet, and Ant Farm. According to Wikipedia, Sea Monkeys are actually brine shrimp that have entered a natural state of suspended animation called cryptobiosis. Totally sci-fi!
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I remember that I could never get these things to live very long after hatching, and being disappointed that they didn’t look a thing like I had imagined. I worked at an exotic fish store where you could buy hundreds of adult ones for only about $2.00 (fish food!). I cant believe my parents paid the money that they did for these kits. XD
Press Alt+F4 to see a video about these little guys.
Does being an asshole on the internet help you to not cry yourself to sleep at night?
You seem to have all the experience in that matter. So maybe you can answer your own question?
so
I was so incredibly disappointed when I grew my first set of “Sea Monkeys” to adulthood – there was no trident, no throne, no happy nuclear Sea Monkey family; just gross, translucent brine shrimp. I flushed them and never trusted an advertisement again.
My sister kept a “tank” of these for about 3 months… then forgot to feed them or give them any attention for a week and the water became a foul green muck. Still an epic win though. Watching the tiny “specs” grow into big adults is always fun.
I found Sea Monkeys completely horrifying – mine got big and long and started getting tangled with each other and there was no way to clean the water so it just got mucky and gross and I felt SO guilty..
The night both my mum AND I had nightmares about them we decided it was time for them to go..
YECH.
I think when you saw them getting ‘tangled’ together they were in the process of making more brine shrimp.
I love these things and still have some on the go! They get massive and you can see their little eyes. SO CUTE!
Omg, I’m 20 and I have some of these right now. SEA MONKEYS NEVER GET OLD. <3
Does anyone remember that creepy “Land of the lawn weenies” story about these? Put me off asking for them forever.
=O.
That was my favorite book for years. And, yes, that story was flippin’ scary. I’d had Sea Monkeys before I read it, too…they were pretty weird, but kinda cool. (They never tried to eat me like in the story, though.)
i had them…killed them…>:)
i had triop too.
what do you mean
ya i remember how mine used to eat eachother…
I snorted mine up my nose and it eventually ate my brain
Talk about timing… they just re-ran the “Sea People and Me” episode of South Park like a week ago…
I never had them, but that’s probably because I always had some other sort of pet (our family had a dog ever since I was 4…).
i remember all my friends always seemed to have these and i ALWAYS wanted them, never got em
Aww! (That’s a genuine ‘aww’, btw, no a sarcastic one.) Well, you’re an adult now (from what I can tell, at least), so go and get yourself some. PetSmart sells ‘em for cheap.
They’ve been a part of our culture for so long because of those comic book ads. However, I’ve never seen one in person.
It seems like these would get boring pretty quick.
They’re actually little bitty shrimp- a lot of fish breeders use the eggs to feed fry too small to eat normal food, or the adult shrimp to give their adult fishies something fun to do.
I never had them, but I’m sorely tempted now… My betta would have so much fun stalking these little guys around his tank >D
That would be a neat trick because brine shrimp live in salt water and are pray of salt water fish. I do believe your beta would be fresh water.
Yeah, my betta’s a freshie (of course), but the brine shrimp don’t need to last long in the fresh water- you raise them in brine, wash them off, then put them in the betta tank and let the betta play.
I have a Sea Monkeys on Mars aquarium waiting to be set up. They come with all kinds of tanks and accessories now, even an executive tank.
I had them as a child, until my rotten niece poured baby powder in the tank. Now she has kids of her own and I bought them a tank when I picked mine up. Ah, the great circle of life…….
This post has made me want to go out and buy a tank for nostalga’s sake. Now where could I put it so the cat can’t knock it over…
my favorite bit of my sea monkeys was when you first put them in the water, and they left turquoise streaks in the water! After then they were a little boring…
my mom bought my brother some Triops, they were similar to Sea Monkeys, but they seemed to be more canabalistic, and within two days there were only five left. On the third day we noticed one eating the other! xD
They are not ’sea monkeys’ they are brine shrimp. There is nothing magical about them unless you and 2 cups of baking soda and 1 cup of vinegar together with them. You have to add them to the water at the exact same time.
That’s “add,” ESL student. This isn’t LOL Cats.
relax, it was a typo, jeez.
Dose no one see that this kid is doing it all out of order? He must be trying to grow super sea monkeys. He should just ask the millions of us who tried the same thing . . . it doesn’t work.
It worked quite good here in Chornobyl. Started breeding them half year ago, shot the last one yesterday before he could slash me with his claws….
Sea People + Sea Men = Sea Ciety
When I was about 7 we got some of these–my parents gave in after months of intense whining. Then we had them, and we loved them, and the cat knocked them over and killed both the TV and the Intellivision. Ahh, memories…
Sea Monkeys, FYI, are a sub-species of brine shrimp bred in a lab to be larger and more intelligent than normal brine shrimp. I bought some for my husband as a joke. They outgrew their little plastic container so we cleaned out a 25 gallon tank for them. They did fine for many generations before some kind of aquatic environmental catastrophe, probably a sudden bacterial explosion, foule dthe water and took out the whole civilization. They were very visible and fun to watch, especially when a group of smaller ones would gang up on a bigger one to steal the food right out of its mouth!
My sea monkeys wouldn’t eat the food i gave em, and they apparently tried to beat each other up (at least thats the best i can describe what they were doing). Apparently i didn’t take care of them so well
Mine spilled over because me sis hit the tank over. I got another tank and the same thing happened. They never outgrew 1 mm
Oh my god, I remember these! two weeks after we got them, my little sister dumped nail polish in the tank and killed them
I never forgave her.
Haha, I remember this was the only type of pet my friend was allowed to have and we spent a whole afternoon looking at the different things you could buy for them. Her parents bought her sea monkey steroids that made them way bigger and reproduce much faster. It got kind of scary after a while.
all I can think of now is that one movie where the kid makes sea monkeys but accidentally gets his DNA in via comb and makes a clone. XD
Well, I know that I am a Mass Seamonkey murderer thats for sure.